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Workflow Sprint with Punctum

I was in Santa Barbara today facilitating a Workflow Sprint with the wonderful folks from Punctum Books.

I got a new board (picked up from the Walden shop in Santa Barbara) made by Steve Walden himself…and i got to meet him! Whoot! they will send me the pics of me, Steve and the board and I’ll post here…in the meantime here is a pic from their instagram:

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Adam came all the way from New Zealand to pick up his custom 7’6 x 23 1/2 x 3 3/4 Mega Fish ? with two tone bright green airbrush. #surfing #newzealand #surfnz #nzsurf #megafish #surfboards #ventura #picoftheday #green

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and the photos with me and Jen and the board, and me and Steve Walden (!) and the board!

Nikau

If you are wondering why so many shots of NZ…I’m in NZ at the moment, post holidays, with a new camera. So trying things out 🙂 Tuesday I’m on the road again so you can expect more things about publishing from next week!

In the meantime…some photos of Nikau on my property. Nikau are New Zealand’s only native palm and the world’s southern-most palm…it’s a cool tree.

Matauri Bay

Normally a quiet bay. Not so good for surfing. Today, though, it was quite stormy…

Cabbage Tree Bay

Playing more with the Leica.

One last day of hols

A walk around Tane Mahuta, god of the forest. Tane holds the sky up and once saved my life (long story).

Book Sprints wins innovation award

Book Sprints receives the Digital Publishing Award

We are humbled and happy to receive the prize for the category process innovation. According to the jury:

“The approach of transferring the software-based method of agile working to the writing process is interesting for both publishers and authors. Overall, Book Sprints contributes with reinforcing the digital mindset in the publishing industry.”

EPMC going live soon!

Awesome news from the wonderful people at EPMC. They have been building their submission system on top of PubSweet.

Europe PMC is getting ready to release an upgraded version of Europe PMC plus, a system for PIs supported by Europe PMC funders to submit accepted manuscripts for inclusion in Europe PMC and PMC. The new version of Europe PMC plus has an improved design, and new features for creating and reviewing manuscript submissions.

The new Europe PMC plus will be released on 1 May 2019.

More info here : http://blog.europepmc.org/2019/03/New-Europe-PMC-plus.html